abstract background: supervisors should have certain characteristics and adequate preparation for their roles. yet, there are no well‑educated experts knowing about the supervisor’s role and responsibilities and how to train them. so, this research was conducted with the purpose of finding the factors affecting nursing supervisor training. materials and methods: this research is an inductive co...

One of the ongoing challenges in the field of Learning Design is how to most effectively support educators in the development of innovative e-learning through the adoption and adaptation of learning design templates. This paper reflects on experiences from two recent higher education projects in teacher training and medical education, and considers the advantages and disadvantages of templates ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the current use and application of simulators in interventional cardiology. BACKGROUND Despite a paucity of data on the efficacy of simulation in medicine, cardiovascular simulation training is now a mandated part of cardiovascular fellowship training. Additionally, simulators have been endorsed by the Food and Drug Administration as a way to teach physicians new and nove...

The overall aim of this study was to explore current remote symptom support training programs provided to nurses in ambulatory oncology programs across Canada, using a survey-methods environmental scan. Of 36 delivered invitations, 28 programs responded (77.8%) representing 10 provinces. Of 25 programs that offer telephone symptom support, 17 provide symptom support training, seven do not, and ...

The escalating costs of health care and other recent trends have made health care decisions of great societal import, with decision-making responsibility often being transferred from practitioners to health economists, health plans, and insurers. Health care decision making increasingly is guided by evidence that a treatment is efficacious, effective-disseminable, cost-effective, and scientific...

Implications for practice and research ► Evidence suggests that simulation training improves nurses’ clinical knowledge and performance in recognising and managing clinical deterioration in simulated environments. ► More research is required to establish the most effective models of simulation training and the impact on patient outcomes in real clinical settings. ► The development of a valid an...

KEY POINTS Exercise training has been proven to be a safe and effective behavioural intervention for prevention and rehabilitation of chronic conditions.Despite the complexity of the signs and symptoms presented in IPF, supervised exercise training is a feasible and effective treatment for clinical improvement.Emerging data show significant enhancements in exercise capacity, dyspnoea and qualit...

We present a simple, but surprisingly effective, method of self-training a twophase parser-reranker system using readily available unlabeled data. We show that this type of bootstrapping is possible for parsing when the bootstrapped parses are processed by a discriminative reranker. Our improved model achieves an f -score of 92.1%, an absolute 1.1% improvement (12% error reduction) over the pre...